2681

How’d that fight go, by the way? I skipped him b/c of the difficulty at the time.

2682

Well I attuned the spell “Fall Control”, because last time I fell through the hole and he immediately killed me as I was trying to get up from the fall.

So this time I cast Fall Control, then fell through the hole, and had light clothing on so I could keep running behind him. He’s a big fat tubby and though he does jump up sometimes, he can’t keep you from repeatedly going behind him. He does have an attack that I won’t give away, since it took me by surprise, but other than that, easy times.

2683

For most of the game, we were, yeah. It’s my own fault for getting obsessed with it. Though, I’m not that far ahead if you don’t count the expansion content. :)

Btw, it sounds like you’re almost at the boss in the Tomb of the Giants.

2684

I’m about to leave for work, but I had one last try at Kalameet. Instead of trying to get to his tail, I decided to just try to beat him instead. I had him down to about a tenth of his original health when I made a silly mistake and got killed. So if I don’t worry about his tail, he doesn’t seem that hard. Well, no, scratch that, he’s still hard, but not nearly as hard as trying to run around him to get to his tail.

2685

I got past all those silly skeletons and killed Nito, now I’ve just done New Londo and I’m right at the boss. Well, except I forgot to put the ring on didn’t I? YOU DIED.

At least I now have enough Titanite Chunks to upgrade my lighting halberd to… wait… what? Now I need a Titanite Slab? Man, this lightning stuff doesn’t come easy, does it?

Time to call it a night.

2686

I think there is, in the ruins, a Titanite Slab waiting to be found. I am not sure where but I think that is where it is at.

2687

2688

Also, and I don’t actually recommend this but what have you, there is a very small chance that the dark wraith guys at the bottom of the drained New Londo will drop a titanite slab. So if you fancy some practice with those guys, put on some farming gear and have at it, you might just win the titanite lottery!

2689

Congrats. Manus just gave me fits. I could never even come close to killing that SOB without going total cheese.

2690

The Darkwraiths are definitely farmable.

2691

By the way, I have my Claymore turned into a Magic Claymore a while back, and then as I kept getting more resources that I wasn’t using otherwise, I turned it into an Enchanted Claymore, and after the Crystal Caves I was swimming in upgrade material I needed, and maxed it out at +5 Enchanted Claymore. Now I just need some kind of enemy to test this Claymore on. Maybe I can give it a test run against Kalameet, though I have no clue how vulnerable he is to magic damage.

2692

I don’t remember what weapon it was, maybe the Falchion, but I got it to +5 Enchanted and never used it. I had the Claymore at +5 (maybe higher) Divine and only used it for a short while in the Catecombs. Neither one seemed of much use otherwise. Waste of a Claymore actually.

2693

That’s where I picked up all my Titanite Chunks, six of them so far. They’re quite satisfying to kill so I might give them another round or two. Going to try the Four Kings boss first though. What could go wrong?

2694

I was just exploring the Anor Londo. I knew the painting would be a portal to a painted world… I thought I could examine it, and was sucked right into it… grr. Well the Silver Knight Archers gave me trouble anyway, so Painted World is it… 3 hours later, I defeated that poison dragon, met the bonewheel skeletons. Brutal, opened a shortcut, killed that pack of slime monsters around the statue… nothing, amazing, I have not found back. There is a huge door in the tower still not possible to be opened… I hope I do not have to go again down to the skeletons?

2695

I’m afraid you do. There’s a way of opening the door down there. I completely missed it myself the first time too.

2696

oh shoot… those sekeletons, haven’t found a good strategy yet, except evading if possible. I leveled 4 or 5 times since I am in the painted world… and the dragon was optional? I am using a totally melee build, no spells, sometimes a bow for baiting, that’s it. As I said I killed Griggs by accident and then never put souls into intelligence… maybe I should do that now, getting old these days, need some distance to the enemies…

2697

The skeletons are easily dodged if you get the timing right; you can often walk out of the way, and then turn around and smash them while they’re still rolling fruitlessly against the wall. The difficulty in that area is pulling them one at a time. If you get two or three, it goes south very fast. So just advance slowly, pull one, dodge and kill, then onto the next. I think there are about five or six of them in there.

Once they’re dead, just keep your eyes peeled for something that might open a gate.

2698

I like reading your struggles through Dark Souls. It sounds like quite an ordeal!

2699

I defeated the Four Kings, these last several bosses have been somewhat anticlimactic after Rogers and Hammerstein, so I’m going to try and figure out how to get into the DLC and take on that thing that was giving Rock8 so much trouble. Prepare yourself for an onslaught of AAARGH posts as I get repeatedly killed.

2700

After O&S, Sif was a breeze. I’m going to try the painted world before continuing w the plot.